ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 1928 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Tue Wenzel Kragstrup1,2,3, Dong Hyun Sohn4, Christin Lepus3, Kazuhiro Onuma5, Qian Wang3, William H. Robinson3 and Jeremy Sokolove3, 1Randers Regional Hospital, Randers, Denmark, 2Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 3VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 4Microbiology and Immunology, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Yangsan, Korea, Republic of (South), 5VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Background/Purpose: The pathophysiology of osteoarthritis (OA) involves wear and tear, and a state of low-grade inflammation. Wear and tear leads to tissue degradation followed by…